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In late 2366 and early 2367, the Prospect was en route to Earth when the call came from AdmiralJ.P. Hanson to proceed to Wolf 359 to help with the battle against a Borg cube. The Prospect arrived too late, finding a starship graveyard; however, a mysterious alien ship was there, appearing to communicate with the Borg cube. After a battle with the alien ship, both the Prospect and the alien ship suffered damage to their warpnacelles.

After an away team was returned to the Prospect, the damage was repaired by unknown means, and a temporary sensor upgrade occurred to assist finding survivors of the Battle of Wolf 359.

Upon returning to Wolf 359 and using the sensor upgrades, the Prospect coordinated the rescue effort (as other ships could not seem to detect life signs). Their sensors discovered escape pods from the USS Saratoga, USS Buran and USS Kyushu amongst others. In response, Greene ordered the Prospect into full rescue mode, involving transporter control, shuttlebay operations, Sickbay and various other divisions.

One of their first missions after the refit was a top-secret infiltration mission to Enip. The Enipians caught Arlington first officer Biondo and Prospect second officer Eriksson, killed several other Prospect and Arlington away team members, and lost Lansing and Radke. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus") We assume the Arlington was involved as Biondo was involved. We don't know the particulars of this mission, although it must have happened after "The Burnt Child" and before "Lady Lazarus".

In late 2367, en route to another destination, the Prospect received a distress call from the USS Artemis, thought destroyed 3 years earlier in 2364.

The Prospect has an extremely high registry number for an Excelsior-class starship, as do her sister ships, the USS Arlington, USS Barrington, USS Des Plaines, USS Palatine and USS Park Ridge. An explanation for this (yet to make its way into the series) is Starfleet assembled spare Excelsior-class pieces into ships and rushed them into service during a war, most likely the Federation-Tzenkethi War in the 2350s or 2360s, allowing for the higher (and extremely similar) registry numbers. After the war, they didn't retire the ships, opting instead to leave them in active service. If this is true, John Greene is most likely the first or second commanding officer of the Prospect.